Don't get me wrong, I loved Oblivion. I think Tom Cruise is a great go to for scifi. But, from the trailer, this seems incredibly similar to Oblivion except instead of spatial clones it's temporal clones. Is that the premise?

Also in Britain, party lines are strictly enforced. Any deviation results in lack of financial support from the party and since that makes up all the campaign funds, candidates stick strictly with party lines. Thus you will see attacks directed at parties as a whole.

It is interesting how this protest has not be framed in the context of social and political culture. Due to the Cultural Revolution, segmentation of extended families, and other policies, China has been castrated of thousands of years of social and political culture. There is only the state and the state is the Chinese people. In fact many mainland Chinese are so mistaken about the de facto independence of Taiwan, they have arguments based upon "Taiwan, let's see you try to be your own country, you will see how hard it is." The ignorance of de factor realities is astounding.

I see closer ties to China as extremely risky for Taiwan's social and political culture, namely Confucianism, democracy, and others. Have there been any official assessments from this perspective? I feel like this argument is much stronger than any general "my democracy is at stake" when what was done was not technically unconstitutional but merely in bad faith.

I will assume you are talking about well-behaved functions (smooth, continuous, etc.), specifically analytic functions. Since most functions dealt with are like so and we do get trivial solutions from other functions, the interesting examination is that of analytic functions and why ex is the only analytic function that satisfies this property you mention.

Any analytic function (real and complex) can be represented by an infinitely termed, convergent polynomial. Although the other answers here give you other perspective on why this property occurs, we can see the fascinating road I'm headed towards.

For an analytic function to be it's own derivative, the derivative of each term of its polynomial form must bijectively map to the polynomial form of its derivative.

When does this happen?

Since we know that the derivative of 1 is 0 and the derivative of x is 1, let us build from there.

So now we have 1 + x.

We can see that if we differentiate this, the second term's derivative is exactly what the original first term was. Let's extend this.

Next we know that the derivative of x2 is 2x. What if we had the next term be 1/2 x2? Then the derivative would be x right?

Now we have 1 + x + 1/2 x2

How about we extend this to 1/3 x3? This is x2. Hmm... how do we arrive at 1/2 x2? How about 1/6 x3?

Please do not ever claim that any neurological processes are affected by quantum scale biophysical interactions. Sure ion channels often require quantum tunnelling to function. However, we are many levels of interactions and magnitude above that when any neurological processes are made. In fact, over the years, any attempt at introducing quantum influences on brain functions (not biophysical functions, mind you) have been soundly reputed.

Equating the act of making a decision to the collapsing of a wavefunction is both a misunderstanding of quantum mechanics and basic network properties and functions. Making a decision, neurologically, is nowhere near the quantum scale.

The main reason is hiphop loves experimentation and making music for making musics's sake and is extremely collaborative. Even before the internet, the concept of the mixtape as a way of proving oneself was well established. Fans listened to mixtapes and even established artists would drop mixtapes for more experimental music. Collectives featured varied styles and performances and roles for each member. In addition, the core principle of sampling lends hiphop to crossover appeal, allowing further broadening of musicality.

After the internet (and Lil Wayne), we simply see an explosion of mixtape material and collaborations. The six degrees of Kevin Bacon for hiphop would be perhaps 10 artists and at most 2 degrees from everybody. Collaboration and mixtapes and touring with bigger artists are how new artists get established and noticed. You don't see this at all in some genres and not nearly to the same extent in any other genre. Lil Wayne, one of the most successful critically and financially hiphop artists, still drops mixtapes which feature numerous collaborations. For those of you that don't know about mixtapes, they are completely free. The only place I see this level of experimentation and collaboration is in academia to be honest and then again not even this much.

TL;DR: The reason hiphop has progressed so far and established so many crossover spheres of influence is because it is very much like scientific academia.

EDIT: I could expand even more on the parallels to academia in terms of roles people play in songs and how "tenure" is obtained, let me know.

This is why I think hiphop will continue to be the most innovative and culturally significant music genre. No other genre puts out mixtapes for the sake of it. No other genre has the same level of collaboration.

The best universities are often not the most expensive. In fact, the most gifted students (who arguably do not need an education) often pay the least due to both the best universities having the best financial packages and also merit scholarships, while the least gifted students will struggle for years at mid to lower tier institutions and never qualify for scholarships.